Help! Why are these 2 ships not docking?

[AlexMetal1845]

I have spent over an hour constantly adjusting my position and noting, then checked other threads and re adjusted myself and still nothing...

Do the large docking prots not even work?
i really dont want to have to cheat and use mods so early.
Where's a NASA scientist?

[AlexMetal1845]

some pics to hopefully help...

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=148286947

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=148286929

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=148286913

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=148286894

[bpivk]

I used the big ports to see if they are really so hard to dock and they dock just as fast as the smaller ones if not faster. The didn't dance around as the smaller ones usually do.

Are you sure you placed them in correct position namely the right side up?

Can you make a screenshot of the vessel on the right?

You can see me docking here:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=148288504
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=148288569

[AlexMetal1845]

right side up!!!!! ohhh for ♥♥♥♥♥ sake

one of them is the wrong way round them probably

could that be the only reason? i havent successfully docked once yet so could there be anything else just so i dont spent another hour to find ive done another thing wrong?

dam the challenge of this game, its great haha

[bpivk]

Originally posted by alexmunday1845:

could that be the only reason?

Or you didn't align them properly but from your screens you only push up and they should clamp together.

[AlexMetal1845]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=148288979

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=148288968

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=148288954

[Sinner_D]

seriously? those things gotta be right sided? damnit, when will squad give these parts indications...Grrr

sure glad i have yet to try this myself, any easy way to ensure right side up gxs? ive got a satelite using large dock for re-fuel port, so i will see this issue eventually. uhg

@alex: nice lookin station core :D

[AlexMetal1845]

(last time i 'switched ships' they both detached every component so dont want to risk that again right now)

its abit dark but i think you can see the ship on the right the docking port is the wrong way round
bugger

[bpivk]

Looking at the handles I'm fairly sure that you have one placed in the opposite direction. Probably the right one since the left one looks ok and they both have handles on the same sides. The handles should be pointed more towards the outside (they are not completely centred).
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=148290000

Here are the two directions so you can check your craft. The one on the right should be pointed outwards. They are fairly distinct once you get used to them. The outer ring (on the right side) has more detail and a ring around it which I suppose houses magnets. The inner ring (left one on my picture) is totally flat.

[AlexMetal1845]

thanks on both parts guys. this game is going to need some serious colaberation i thinks...

cheers it will be an impressive structure... one day
Had to flip it (launch it upside-down) coz it was top heavy, that wasnt hard...

technically, im good at making ships safe for repeated launches, and getting into whatever orbits... then the fine tuning which lets me down on many games...

shame i cant make them for others to fly, would get somewhere then haha


Ok, well back to the engineering dept, will post a shot when/if they link up.

Thanks again

[AlexMetal1845]

Gxs - frankly i didnt look, thinking it would be fine... should have known knoing this game haha

[bpivk]

Originally posted by alexmunday1845:

shame i cant make them for others to fly, would get somewhere then haha


Ok, well back to the engineering dept, will post a shot when/if they link up.

It's a quick fix. Just flip around that one part that's pointed wrong.

Also you can share your plans. They are saved in Steam/steamapps/common/Kerbal/saves/yourname/ships/SPH and VAB folders.
They are standard text files so you can also past a text somewhere like pastebin and share it.

Don't be discouraged. Everybody makes mistakes. If I had a penny for each time I forgot to add landing legs or set up action buttons I'de be rich now.

[AlexMetal1845]

wasnt exactly quick. the bit that was was the wrong way round was on a ship with no real engins, so was more a issue of fixing that ship, getting that into position and getting another ship part to dock with that, think i lost about 6 kerbals fixing that...

but...

[AlexMetal1845]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=148354829


My first docking...

PHAT!

ive been playing this for about 2 weeks solid and this is my best acumplishment so far...
honestly im loving the way it makes my head hurt haha....


next stop, youve guessed it...
TO Da Mun

[bpivk]

Originally posted by alexmunday1845:

next stop, youve guessed it...
TO Da Mun

Docking was the best part of the game at least for me. No landing can compare to a nice docking even now. I sweated like a horse when I finally docked my first ship at 2am while my wife was sleeping (and thinking I laid beside her).

It gets simpler and you can pull it off in under 15 minutes once you get the hang of it but it's still the most fiddly and satisfying thing to do. Landing is ok but there's just something about two ships finally coming together (totally not a sex thing although your ship design reminds me of some stuff but hey my ship ended up looking like a swastika when I had all my panels extended so who am I to talk). :)

Oh yeah almost forgot... Congrats!

[FluxCap]

Great... Here I came for an enlightening game, and someone like gxs turns it into Invasion of the Space Nazis. *sigh*

But, while on the subject, has anyone had problems docking small clamps to large ones? I attached two sections together, one with an orange tank, and thought I'd try to refuel my long distance lander to it (trying for an Eeloo there and back mission), and had trouble lining them up. I got frustrated and am now docking a third section that has the regular ports to it (the two sections didn't provide enough fuel for the craft anyway), but am curious if anyone else has had issue with different clamps coming together.